Ran out of points in phase 3. Could have avoided that if some of the solutions would have been explained a little better what they contain.
The solutions were bullshit. Where was the option for “Build a nuclear plant on every street corner”?
Politics is going to kill us.
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This is hard, I think you need perfect answers to win basically. Which aren’t necessarily obvious.
I had a 2nd run but finished with 1.52° warming. Couldnt get the industrial emissions down or was too afraid to take the most expensive solution.
I was cruising and then got slammed with negatives in phase 3 
I played it a few times and managed to get to 1.48 degrees of warming, but overall it’s a silly game and sort of depressing when you realize that even the lowest effort options are virtually impossible to do irl.
The only realistic version of the game is that you are a part of the global 1% and you use your power and influence in a desperate attempt to preserve your privilige as 8 billion people have their worlds collapse around them.
I guess a “hopeful” version of the game is there is a massive technological breaththrough and it just fixes climate change with no downside. That’s what policy makers have implicitly been hoping for for 30 years.
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Isn’t that what we’re all reduced to hoping for now?
You mean deluded into thinking its an actual possibility?
Yeah, because we’ve decided to embrace capatalism instead of the future of the planet.
Things are nearly too far gone for a reversal at this point. We would need something not even on the radar to be able to develop an entire global industry in less than a decade, while at the same time having 100% buy in from people who will have to contribute large swaths of their extravagant net worth.
None of this is within the realm of our current thoughts and capabilites and we are out of time.
We have to have had a plan yesterday
The earth will be fine
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Yes, thats the point of what I wrote. Well done
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What did you write?
Edit: never mind, you must of replied to the wrong person.
Yes.
The actual problem with solar is it doesn’t do anything to increase the baseload of the grid since the energy isn’t stored. It helps on sunny days, but what about evenings and cloudy days? You can’t plan a grid around inconsistent energy.
Agreed but this is why battery storage of various kinds is growing so much. I’m working on several projects right now of this kind.
When can we have giant flywheels? I want giant flywheels dammit!
Solar is up to over 20% of the supply in CA and it’s overcast today, so I guess our power is going out.
giant flywheels
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The big problems with this comment/attitude are: there’s a long way to go in most places before that’s a problem, there’s usually multiple sources of power generation everywhere and “solar” doesn’t mean “only solar”, and solar with storage is more than competitive now anyway.
The news in energy production all over the world is actually extremely good. Renewable adoption is soaring, battery storage is growing and prices are dropping, Texas of all places now has more utility solar than California, China has likely peaked in carbon emission and electric vehicles are also booming.
What is needed is more of the same and resistance to the reactionary forces.
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